Trump won. But he wasn't the only one. The Republicans handily held the House and Senate and wait - that's not all! They also collected a vast majority of state governorships and legislatures. The question is "Why?" and the answer is not that the rest of America is a bunch of racists, homophobes, or whatever. Victor Davis Hanson gives his thoughts on an answer and it's a pretty good one.
Hanson basically posits that the crap-o-meters of a large majority of Americans have gone off and are buzzing loudly because of the rank hypocrisy of the liberal grandees of the Left. Some examples you say? Fair enough. Let's start at the top, shall we?
Exhibit #1 - President Obama, Mr. Reconciliation Between the Races:
"When Barack Obama invites rapper Kendrick Lamar into the White House and announces that his “To Pimp a Butterfly” is the president’s favorite song of the year — whose album cover shows the corpse of a murdered white judge, with Xs in place of eyes, on the White House lawn, as African-American youth toast his demise with drinks and cash — do we really assume that progressives like Obama believe in stopping hate speech and imagery, or perhaps even believe in anything at all?"
That would be a "Negatory good buddy."
Exhibit #2 - Then there's Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Uber-Liberal Supreme Court Justice commenting about abortion that:
“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
Er Ruth, who might you be referring to?
Exhibit #3 - And Hillary - how could we forget Hillary? Let's not:
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Without an ideology that even remotely matched the life she led, Hillary Clinton could only run a campaign without consistent positions. She flipped on the Keystone pipeline and trade agreements. She refuted the entire 1990s Clinton economic and social agenda. Indeed, her positions of 2008 — anti–gay marriage, border enforcement, and rural populism — were the very positions that she smeared others for embracing in 2016. In 2008, Clinton damned Obama for his “clingers” speech; in 2016, she trumped him with her deplorables and irredeemables."
My, my, my - such a shame when you are done in by your own words. Consistency is grossly overrated!
Hanson gives many more examples from Congress, the media, and Big Business types. He acidly observes:
"The Democratic party leadership is no longer an alternative to corporate wealthy America, but is corporate wealthy America, albeit in a new garb of jeans and flip-flops, Silicon Valley–style. The small-business person, assembly-line worker, and non-government wage earner mostly now vote Republican. Progressivism is a pyramidal capstone of wealthy elites who have the influence and money to embrace boutique positions and the cunning to profess egalitarianism, all while they lead private lives that would otherwise be condemned as illiberal and apartheid-like."
So true. And after 8 years of a force-fed diet of this stuff the American public regurgitated the whole mess and decided to go in a different direction. Trump may not be any great prize but they grew tired of the annoying buzz and flashing lights from their crap-o-meters that have been going off for way too long.
